Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge?

Nope

no

I have one, earned by my grandfather. If memory serves, the school was shut down in 1948, which means 71 years since the final award was presented.

Only ones I’d believe would be the WWII vets.

Jack Scalese a member of our VFW post has this badge.

My grandfather had one from WWII.

I've never seen one, personally except from old photos of service members during WW2. it was a unit of men typically assigned to that unit. Those who might wear it: officers/enlisted of those units and (informally) instructors who trained personnel to fly those aircraft.

My Uncle Walt ... a glider pilot instructor during WWII.

I remember going to an 82nd Airborne convention in, I think, 2001 prior to 9/11 and met a WWII Veteran with glider wings. Might still have the pic somewhere. That’s the only example I can think of. If you meet someone that’s not a WWII vet, I’d be very suspicious.

Yes. My cousin John Rucker from Murfreesboro, Tennessee was an Army glider pilot in WW2. When the Army Air Corps split into the Air Force after the war, he became part of the Air Force Reserve as a JAG officer (he was a lawyer before the war). He eventually became a full Colonel in the reserves. Probably the only Air Force Colonel to wear a glider badge on his dress uniform.